Chair of International Finance

The Chair of International Finance

The Chair continues traditions of the Chair of International Trade Finance, which was established and run earlier by Prof. Mirosław Orłowski, and which existed to the end of the sixties of the 20th century,. After nearly ten years of oblivion, the Chair was reactivated in 1981 and it was run henceforth by Prof. Karol Lutkowski (an alumnus of Prof. Mirosław Orłowski). Since September 2005 the Deparment has been managed by Prof. Elżbieta Chrabonszczewska.

Within the past dozen of years the Chair has formed its internal structure which comprises three institutes: The Institute of the International Monetary System, the Institute of International Credit Markets, and the Institute of Enterprises and Insurances Finance.

The wide profile of the departmental team members’ interests covers the sphere of international finance in its three dimensions: the mechanism of the international monetary-financial system apprehended globally; financial markets and their subjects, kinds of undertaken operations, financial tools; the performance of the financial system of enterprises working in the sphere of international economic cooperation in consideration of the problems of management financial risks and insurances. The team of the Department has ten members nowadays, nine of whom are academics on different levels of professional work, from assistant lecturers (masters) to full professors. The Chair offers a wide range of classes (lectures, seminars and exercises) in all types of studies.

Research papers of the team’s members have concentrated lately on the issues of current domestic and foreign monetary policies, monetary integration and the evolution of international financial market.